In this workshop I want to work with the developmental patterns to come into our dance. We will go back in time playing how it was when we first discovered the world. What are we doing when we are 2, 3, 6 ,12 months old, maybe something like lifting the head, rolling around, starting to crawl and to try to get somewhere high? How is it to enter into contact, what do we want to discover? For what are we reaching out? What satisfies us? We allow ourselves to play and to find a satisfying dance.

In that journey we will use bodywork and movement exercises based on the principles of BMC®. The developmental work will give us a good support for our dances.

Heike Kuhlmann teaches dance and movement for adults and kids for more than 13 years. In 2008 I started to teach BMC and Contact Improvisation which I studied for more than 10 years, using the BMC principles for finding possibilities for improvisation as well as for repatterning. I realized how much a somatic approach helps people to come into a satisfying dance. Also I am always myself excited how many new things I always can discover working with different themes in BMC.

Starting of with a university degree in Physical Education and Biology, I studied Dance Pedagogy with Leanore Ickstadt and did my MA in Choreography. For the Diploma in Integrative Bodywork & Movement Therapy (IBMT), I studied deeply Body-Mind CenteringÒ and Authentic Movement.

In 2010 I taught at the Easter Improfestival in Göttingen.

In 2009/2010 I was invited to the first Contact Festival in Florianopolis, Brasil.

I also create my own performances. In our last colloborational we worked work on weather and climate change. This was shown in Berlin, june 2009. The further development of it will be shown in May 2010.

In 2008 she developped collobpartively the performance installation „Nirgendland“. choreographed „Dancing on water“ and danced at the Masdanca festival- Gran Canaria. In 2007 she won the Berlin price of violence prevention for creation a dancetheatre school project on violence through fairytales.

In 2006 she created the solo „To be looked at“ for the conference „Slavery in Contemporary Arts – Trauma, Memory and Visuality“. An article about that performance has been published in „Slavery in Art and Literature (2010). more Information on: www. Heikekuhlmann.net